The other day, I had a few minutes to kill at a friend's place. I decided to spend it working on boomstick, when I realized -- to my horror! -- that they didn't have an ssh client on their machine. The solution? To add a java ssh client to boomstick.

With proper configuration, MindTerm is actually shockingly decent, and it's painless to install (well, so long as you only want to be able to ssh into the machine hosting the applet.) The license, however, is problematic. It's actually quite reasonable in many ways -- you can rummage through the source, use it free for personal use, even use it for free commercially for less than 25 users -- but it's restrictive enough that I doubt I can (or would want to) integrate it with an open source project... which means I'll have to strip it out of boomstick when I finally get around to releasing the source. That's not difficult at all, I mean it consists of a single jar file and a page with an < applet > block, but it would be cool to be able to distribute a cms with its own ssh client. I mean, c'mon, that's just cool. Cool, and not to be. Ah, well.